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title: Except Old Dhaka, which is an old bazaar-style neighbourhood, the la… — Dhaka · tree and pragmatics
description: Except Old Dhaka, which is an old bazaar-style neighbourhood, the layout of the city follows a grid pattern with organic development influenced by traditional South Asian as well as Middle Eastern and Western patterns. Who acts: you, Old Dhaka, layout. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dhaka» with its depe
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# Dhaka, sentence 280

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From Wikipedia, [«Dhaka»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhaka), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Except Old Dhaka, which is an old bazaar-style neighbourhood, the layout of the city follows a grid pattern with organic development influenced by traditional South Asian as well as Middle Eastern and Western patterns.

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**Who acts:** you, Old Dhaka, layout · **What happens:** except, be, follow, influence · **To what, where:** Old Dhaka, old style neighbourhood, grid pattern, organic development

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Dhaka». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Old Dhaka, layout), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Dhaka:280
# text = Except Old Dhaka, which is an old bazaar-style neighbourhood, the layout of the city follows a grid pattern with organic development influenced by traditional South Asian as well as Middle Eastern and Western patterns.
1	Except	except	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Dhaka	Dhaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
9	bazaar	bazaar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	style	style	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	neighbourhood	neighbourhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	layout	layout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	follows	follow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	grid	grid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	pattern	pattern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	organic	organic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	development	development	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	influenced	influence	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
27	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	traditional	traditional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	South	south	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	Asian	Asian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	advcl	_	_
31	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	35	cc	_	_
32	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	31	fixed	_	_
33	as	as	ADP	IN	_	31	fixed	_	_
34	Middle	Middle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	Eastern	Eastern	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	Western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	patterns	pattern	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **except** | imperative | you *not said here* | Old Dhaka |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Old Dhaka | a old style neighbourhood |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **follow** | present | the layout of the city | a grid pattern |  |  |  | with organic development | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pattern=Theme |
| 4 | **influence** | participle |  | organic development *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Dhaka», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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